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Prevailing Theories of Change(ToC) on ASB Partnership timeline: ToC -1: Shifting cultivation is a major driver of deforestation, modernizing agriculture saves forests.- before 1993. Intensifying agriculture to obtain higher yields per ha reduces land pressure on forest & deforestation (‘Borlaug hypothesis’) 1993-1995 ToC 2A: Tradeoffs between private and public benefits of land use can be quantified; knowing opportunity costs of environmental services frames policy; ToC 2B: Landscape mosaics (varying on segregated versus integrated axis) shape multi-scale outcomes; require Negotiation Support for change ToC 2C: Landscape mosaics require fair + efficient reward mechanisms and/or coinvestment in ES TOC 3A: Landscape-scale coinvestment in ES supports Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU as REDD++ alternative) ToC 3B: Multi-scale, multi-paradigm combi-nation of national com-modification and local coinvestment for land-based NAMA’s/LAAMA’s ToC 3C: Idem for Sustainable Development Goals;
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Theories of Change & Change of Theory: Twenty years of ASB Partnership for the tropical
forest margins
Meine van NoordwijkThanks to many in the audience and elsewhere for sharing ideas
IUFRO 2014 Salt Lake City: Session C-02 (193) From Understanding Drivers To Gaining Leverage At The Tropical Forest Margins: 20 Years of ASB Partnership
Theory of Change of Theory…
Theory of Change• Rational and implementable pathways to achieve
change that is deemed desirable by funders and acceptable by gatekeepers, accompanied by…
Change of Theory
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Theory of Change Theory of Place• Many development agencies
have adopted a ‘theory of change’ language as a more modest and transparent step beyond ‘log frames’ that suppose the world is predictable and controllable
• Focus is still on desirable long-term change (‘impact’), achieved via ‘outcomes’ that can be monitored, but it accepts that ‘boundary work’ involves partners’ agendas and timeframes
• Change is non-linear and strongly depen-dent on context, history, stakeholder processes and cross-scale influences (top-down + bottom up), beyond direct control
• A theory of place provides a frame for understanding context, recognizing similarity domains, inspiration
Core Logged-over Secondary and Annual Grassland Mosaic landscape of agro-forest forest agroforest crops forestry, plantations, crops orchards, woodlots
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Theory of Change
Theory of Place
Theory of Place depends on scale, e.g. Indonesia as a country is a point in the centre of the curve,but zooming in to district scale it displays the full spectrum
van Noordwijk, M. and G.B. Villamor. 2014. Tree cover transitions in tropical landscapes: hypotheses and cross-continental synthesis. GLPnews, 10: 33-37. (Open Acess)
Theory of Change -1: Shifting cultivation is a major driver of deforestation,
modernizing agriculture saves forests. before 1993
ASB–scientists rejected the ToC-1hypothesis before the research started, but the name ‘slash-and-burn’ remained a red flag on a
bull for social scientists
Slash and Burn as land clearing method
Swiddening as rotational
system
Shifting Tropical Forest margins
Theory of Change 1: Intensifying agricul-ture to obtain higher yields per ha reduces
land pressure on forest & deforestation (‘Borlaug hypothesis’) 1993-1995
Global de-mand for food, fibre (& fuel)
Land use with low productivity per unit land
Land use with high productivity per unit land
XX
Continued deforestation
Sustainable land use
ASB – scientists rejected the hypothesis (“necessary but not sufficient condition”) as too simplistic in 1995. Hypothesis re-emerged around 2000 as ‘land sparing’
How? Price mechanisms??How? Technical constraints??
Agroforestry
Agro- vs Fores-
vs vsTree
Natural vegetation, biodiversity, wilderness
Culture, control, food
security, profitability
Product value chains
Crop fields, pasture Natural forest
Tree crops
Theory of Change 2A: Tradeoffs between private and public benefits of land use can be quantified; knowing opportunity costs of environmental services frames policy
Global demand for food, fibre (& fuel); returns to land & la-bour; C balance, Biodiversity
Land use with low productivity per unit land
Land use with high productivity per unit land
XX
Continued deforestation
Sustainable land use
ASB – scientists quantified the tradeoff (“ASB matrix”) based on co-located, interdisciplinary, globally comparative methods ; ’theory of place’ missed ‘landscape’
How? Subsidies + TaxesHow? Technical constraints??
1995 current
>30%
Forest
AgroforestryPaddy riceUrban
Watershed 1 Watershed 2
Which one will be ‘healthy’?
Forest
AgroforestryPaddy riceUrban
Hydrographs with decreasing flow persistence (Fp)
Same rainfall, same total water yield
River flow in degrading watersheds become more erratic as the Fp metric increases
Theory of Change 2B: Landscape mosaics (varying on segregated versus integrated axis) shape multi-scale outcomes; require Negotiation Support for effective change
Global demand for food, fibre (& fuel); returns to land & la-bour; C balance, Biodiversity; conflict; water
Land use with low productivity per unit land
Land use with high productivity per unit land
XX
Continued deforestation
Sustainable land use
ASB – scientists explored negotiation support in landscapes with hot conflicts, found tenure reform to be a crucial step, experiment with ‘payments & rewards’ for ES
How? Tenure reform, PES, Watershed Management
2000 current
Carrots, sticks & sermons
Deforestation rate estimates depend more on operational definitions of forest than that they change with time ; data for Indonesia based on common satellite imagery
Theory of Change 2C: Landscape mosaics require fair + efficient reward
mechanisms and/or coinvestment in ES
Global demand for food, fibre (& fuel); returns to land & la-bour; C balance, Biodiversity; conflict; water
Land use with low productivity per unit land
Land use with high productivity per unit land
XX
Continued deforestation
Sustainable land use
ASB – scientists experimented with ‘payments & rewards’ for ES;
How? Tenure reform, PES, Co-investment
2005 current
Boundary work, objects
Who cares, who is affected by or benefits from the
changes in tree cover and associated ecosystem
services? How are stakeholders organized and
empowered to get leverage & influence the drivers? Are both genders empowered?
Why is land use what it is? What are the drivers of
current human activity and what are levers (regulatory
framework, economic in-centives, motivation) for modifying future change?
Who makes a living here, what is ethnic identity,
historical origin, migrational history, claims to land use rights, role in main value
chains, what are key power relations? Gender specificity of
all the above?
So what? How do ecosystem services (provisioning,
regulating, cultural/ religious, supporting) depend on tree
cover and the spatial organization of the landscape?
Gender specificity of appre-ciation and dissatisfaction?
How are forests and trees used? What land use pat-terns with or without trees are prominent in the land-
scape and provide the basis for local lives and liveli-
hoods? What value chains are based on these land
uses?
Where are remaining forests and planted trees? Since
when? How does tree cover vary in the landscape (pat-terns along a typical cross-
section, main gradients), and how has it decreased and
increased over time?
Theory of Change
Theory of Place
lSocio-ecological system dynamics
Generic options
Contextualized
RED/REDD/REDD+/REDD++&
NAMA:UNFCCC COP in Bali
Theory of Change 3A: Landscape-scale coinvestment in ES supports Reducing
Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU as REDD++ alternative) 2008 current
ASB – scientists experimented with ‘payments & rewards’ for ES;
Drivers Response/ feed-back options
Actors/ agents
Land use/ cover
Conse-quences
Livelihoods, provisioning & profitability
A. Rights-based approaches
B. Economic incentives
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Theory of Change 3B: Multi-scale, multi-paradigm combination of national com-modification and local coinvestment for
landbased NAMA’s/LAAMA’s 2011now
ASB – scientists contributed to REDD/readiness evaluation, REDD-ALERT analysis, NAMA articulation Sustainable Development Goals as target for integration
Theory of Change 3C: Multi-scale, multi-paradigm combination of national com-modification and local coinvestment for Sustainable Development Goals; now
ToC -1: Shifting cultivation is a major driver of
deforestation, modernizing agriculture saves forests.
before 1993
ToC 1: Intensifying agriculture to
obtain higher yields per ha reduces land pressure on forest
& deforestation (‘Borlaug
hypothesis’) 1993-1995
ToC 2A: Tradeoffs between private and
public benefits of land use can be quantified;
knowing opportunity costs of environmental services frames policy;
ToC 2B: Landscape mosaics (varying on segregated versus
integrated axis) shape multi-scale outcomes;
require Negotiation Support for changeToC 2C: Landscape
mosaics require fair + efficient reward
mechanisms and/or coinvestment in ES
TOC 3A: Landscape-scale coinvestment in ES supports Reducing
Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU as REDD++
alternative)ToC 3B: Multi-scale,
multi-paradigm combi-nation of national com-modification and local coinvestment for land-
based NAMA’s/LAAMA’sToC 3C:
Idem for Sustainable Development Goals;
now
CGIAR system level objectives Competing Theories of Change
Goal 1. Raising rural income through enhanced connectivity with global and national markets, modified by integrated approach to demographic, economic, rural/urban and cultural transitions.
A.Rapid integration in global markets,
B.Optimizing local development pace and connectedness
Goal 2. Closing yield and efficiency gaps in agriculture and food systems. With growing global demand for primary production for food, fibre and energy, current yield gaps (actual yields below potential) and efficiency gaps (current efficiency below potential) are a direct concern, while in the long term an increase in the potential is desirable/ necessary while simply maintaining current levels is a challenge in the face of climate change.
A. Scalable intensification focused on increased input use to reduce yield gaps,
B. Ecological intensification with attention to efficiency gaps and modified demand patterns.
Goal 3. Improve nutrition security to eliminate malnutrition and enhance healthy and nutritious diets. Healthy nutrition requires more than calories provided by staple foods, especially for young children. As dietary choices change, new health issues emerge.
A. Genetically modified staple food crops with enhanced micronutrients and vitamins,
B. Enhanced diversity of food sources in an agrodiversity approach
Goal 4. Achieve goals 1-3 without further compromising environmen-tal quality and the multiple other functions of land, water and biodiversity for human wellbeing, while adapting to changing climates and the avoiding getting too close to the planetary boundaries
A. Land sparing by maximizing agricultural land productivity
B. Land sharing by optimi-zing multifunctionality of land
CGIAR system level objectives Competing Theories of Change